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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hysterical overreaction to the tick-borne affliction reached a new peak. Obsessed with fear that he had contracted Lyme disease when he was bitten by ticks on fur-trapping expeditions over the years and then passed it along to his spouse, a 73-year-old man killed his wife and then himself with a twelve-gauge shotgun in their East Detroit home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Fatal Overreaction | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Lanky and white-haired, with a toothy grin and a nasal honk of an accent, Denis has become a cherished figure for his skillful maneuvers through the minefields of public life alongside his wife, or, as he would say with precision, "a pace behind her, old chap, a pace behind her." He is mainly visible as the gracious host while his wife conducts affairs of state. At 74, < he seems eminently fit for the job: the back is still ramrod straight, the step springy, the mind clear as a bell. What keeps him in such excellent fettle? "Cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Is This Denis a Menace? | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...duty. Denis' taste for "g & t" (gin and tonic), chums and golf is no secret. When he is not busy escorting his wife, he can frequently be spied on the exclusive golf course in Dulwich, the sedately elegant London suburb where the Thatchers own a large, two-story brick house for their retirement. After a round, he invariably speeds off to the clubhouse for a natter and a snort. He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: "After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Is This Denis a Menace? | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...evenly matched, each as disconcertingly perceptive and sweetly ridiculous as the other. Sexually, it is Robyn who is the lighthearted aggressor and Vic who, after spending a single night with her, turns into a love-sick calf and begins making alarming declarations about leaving his "podge" of a wife. Robyn, ever the teacher, expounds poststructuralist literary theory to him in bed, explaining that what he mistakes for love is merely a rhetorical device, a bourgeois fallacy. "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" he asks. "When I was younger," she replies, "I allowed myself to be constructed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romance, Of Course, Blooms | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...dark to their target: an apartment on the eastern edge of town belonging to Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, chief military commander of the southern Lebanese wing of Hizballah (Party of God), the fundamentalist Shi'ite group with close ties to Iran. The Israelis burst in, locked up Obeid's wife and children, and carried Obeid and two assistants off to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Bait for A Swap? | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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